European title that at least partly it mitigates the scorching disappointment of the elimination of Italy from the world cup '66 because of North Korea (and in the reentry in country there were for Italians... tomatoes!); it is in these years that it can be said that in general soccer completes its process of total massification like event, and sets as principal pastime for the one that it is fan in every angle of the world; a world championship, for instance, contains in oneself the totality of the possible emotions in the staircase of the feelings of the impassioned soldier like of the most dangerous hooligan, with joy and pain to do from extreme poles; it is discounted therefore that samples of technique like Rivera, Mazzola, Bulgarelli have made unconsciously load of the sum of all the hopes of the blue supporterses and, in a certain sense, departs of a soccer team perfectly in integral manner; in short, to the man of sport (and to the fan) are not conceded defections. The years ' 60 had the worth besides to introduce in painless way the ' 70, that however in substance are a repetition (however not in the results) of the preceding years, at least in the soccer players; to deliver the second place of the world 1970, after Brazil probably stronger. The years ' 80 are recent history, and surely good part of whom is reading can remember himself the triumphs of Spain '82, that open (and in every case they close again) this period of history. The world cup of Spain stays, to today, the tallest point of the blue epic, in the sign of Pablito Rossi but instead of a group that honestly didn't enjoy of any favor to the eve; but in soccer it is almost always this way. Perhaps it is really from this resulted that italian soccer starts to become account that the world, seen by the top, is smaller; in fact, also at club level, the years ' 80 - ' 90 are nearly characterized by an uniform predominance ,of Italian teams in Europe and over; this doesn't remove the partial disappointment of a third place to Italy '90 that would have owed to be a first and bitterness for a lost ending to the penaltys (never first success) in the ' 94. The wood struck from Di Biagio to the last rigor against France landlady in 1998 closes for now the chapter of the world cup, but it is clear that of histories to tell they will be us anchor, at least every 4 years. The foreshortenings of the future that are opened to the horizon today are images of radical proposed renewal (or, we should say, imposed) from who soccer commands (or, we should say, believes to command it) and that, denying conservative tendencies, feels also to contest in full; the Italian federation, has undertaken always from its song (and there is not reason to believe that it will stop doing it) to design remarkable changes but objectively feasible in the international circle, also staying, still today, subdued to rules, if not of party, however substantially ideological. It stays only to understand if this were a good or an evil.